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  • Title: The prevention and management of device-related infection in infusion therapy.
    Author: Maki DG.
    Journal: J Med; 1980; 11(4):239-53. PubMed ID: 6943256.
    Abstract:
    Thirty-three nosocomial outbreaks of infusion-related septicemia since 1965 have dramatically pointed up the microbiologic hazards of infusion therapy. At least 25,000 patients develop device-related septicemia in the United States each year, but the source of many of these bacteremias is never recognized. Most infusion-related septicemias, including those in hyperalimentation, originate from the device used for vascular access. Epidemics stem from infusate contaminated by Klebsielleae species or pseudomonads, either from a source in the hospital or in the manufacturing plant. Device-related infection in infusion therapy can be greatly prevented by scrupulous attention to local asepsis and by limiting the duration of cannulation of peripheral veins (less than or equal to 3 days) and arteries (less than or equal to 4 days).
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